form y separately published work icon Funerals for Field-mice single work   radio play  
Issue Details: First known date: 1940... 1940 Funerals for Field-mice
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Funerals for Field-mice ' is set in the milking yards and the kitchen of Jim Cairncross's dairy farm in the Cambroola district during an auction sale of the farm.'

Source:

'Radio Notes', Manilla Express, 26 July 1940, p.4.

Notes

  • Funerals for Field-mice ultimately won third prize in the ABC Play Competition, after George Farwell's Portrait of a Gentleman and M. Barnard Eldershaw's The Watch on the Headland.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on ABC radio on Friday 26 July 1940, from 8:30pm.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1940 .
      (Manuscript) assertion

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Location: Hanger Collection
      Local Id: H0387
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      :       Australian Broadcasting Commission ,       1940 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon ABC Competition Plays Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1940 8879521 1940 series - publisher radio play

      The umbrella term under which all plays that took part in the ABC Play Competition for 1940 were broadcast. Plays were clearly marked as part of this series, and were numbered for broadcast, enabling listeners to vote on them. All radio plays submitted to the ABC between 1 January and 30 April 1940 were eligible, and listeners awarded marks to each play after they were produced and broadcast. The top three plays were eligible for cash bonuses, but the ABC paid the usual commission rates for all plays that it produced as part of the series. Seventeen plays were produced, although some sources suggest as many as 333 additional plays were received.

      Source:

      'A.B.C. Play Competition', Courier-Mail, 5 February 1940, p.14.

             Number in series: 11
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